Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-11
IS THERE ANY HOPE?
NEW AND IMPORTANT OPINIONS
 OF PULMONARY EXPERTS!

u A Can the Universal Consumption be Successfully Treatedf Dr. Borgeon, leading French doctor, has new treatment for consumption He gives an enema of carbonlc acid and sulphuretted hydrogeu gases, the latter gas carrying the former into every part of the , throat and lungs
 This treatment too is directed at effects the cause remains uudisturbed. What this cause is has been stated by per haps the highest pulmonary authority in the
 world, i. e., the Brompton Hospital for Con- sumptives in London, Eng.
 This malady every year carries off from one-seventh to one fifth of the entire popu- latien of England
 Dr. Payne, M. D., M. R. o. F., London, is authority for this statement. The same or greater proportion of deaths obtains in America.
 Dr. Payne also says that one-half the total number of deaths from all other causes have | seeds of this disease in the system which only require some irIitant to developl Dr. Hermann Brehmer, an eminent Ger man authority, says that consumption is caused by deficient nutrition of the lungs, by poor blood.
 These authorities cannot be disputed The medical world recognizes them. The uric acid is the irritant in the blood that causes the development of the seeds which Dr. Brehmer says lie dormant in the blood. Every particle of blood which passes through the lungs and heart also goes
 through the kidneys, and if they are in the least deranged they cannot rid the blood of it's killing poison. The thousand little hair like sewer tubes of the kidneys very easily get blocked up and diseased; and when they do they corrupt instead of purifying the blood. Kidney disease may exist and yet no pain occur in that organ, because it is deficient in nerves of sensation. Dip your finger in acid every day and it
 soon testers and is destroyed. Send acid
 poisoned blood through the lungs every
 second and they soon give way.
 The Brompton hospital investigation
 showed that ffty-two per cent. of the vic
 tins of consumption were afflicted with
 uric acid poison to remain in the blood
 and irritate the lungs. This uric acid is
 always fighting every vital organ, and if there be any inherent weakness in the lungs it inevitably causes pneumonia, cough and consumption.
 The real cause of pulmonary troubles being so authoritatively shown to be faulty even though unsuspected action of the kid neys, explains why, in ordsr to master the dreaded consumption, one must rid the blood of the uric acid irritant which iudames and burns up the lung substance. For this pur pose there IS nothing equal to that great spe cific, Warmers safe cure. This remedy has now the favor of medical men all over the world purely on it's merits. We have no doubt that if the kidneys are kept in natu- ral action, consumption and great many other diseases caused by uric acid will net only be cured, but will be prevented.
 When the kidney is healthy no albumen appears in the water, but albumen is found in the water of more than half of those who die of consumption
 This then is the condition of things that always precedes consumption: First, weak ened kidneys; second, retainsd uric acid, poisoning the blood; third, the development of disease in the lungs by the irritant acids passing through them. Then there is little cough in the morning; soon thick, yellow matter is spit up, followed by loss of flesh and strength, with dreadful night sweats; and when the patient goes to his school phy sician for help he is put on cod liver oil, which his stomach, weakened also by uric acid in the blood, cannot digest. Because there is pain present in the kidneys the patient does not think they are affected, but the kidney acid is doing it's work every min ute, every hour, day and night, and by and by the disease of the lungs has advanced until pus is developed, then come hemor- Images, and at last the glassy stare which de- notes that the end is near
 A post-mortem examination of such cases shows that the terrible uric acid has com pleteiy destroyed the substance of the lung.
 It is impossible to cure lung disease when the blood is poisoned with uric acid.